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Title Attributes – Seo Treasures or SEO Junk

September 26, 2012 by Surgeon's Advisor

What is a title attribute you ask??  The good folks at W3C state the following: “The title attribute represents advisory information for the element, such as would be appropriate for a tooltip. On a link, this could be the title or a description of the target resource; on an image, it could be the image credit or a description of the image; on a paragraph, it could be a footnote or commentary on the text; on a citation, it could be further information about the source; on interactive content, it could be a label for, or instructions for, use of the element; and so forth. The value is text.”

That sure is a mouthful!  In simple terms it is an easy way to better define specific elements within your HTML coding.  Some of the more common tags include: <img>, <p>, <div>, <a >, and <table> (if you are old school).

To me, these title attributes are SEO treasures.  However, if used incorrectly, they can also be a SEO pitfall.  Now there are also some folks out there that think using these tag attributes are flawed, but not from a search engine optimization standpoint.  Rather they point out the problem that certain users with visual impairments and some browsers cannot display the descriptive text located within the attribute.  There is a great article about this short coming by Steve Faulkner that discusses this in great lengths.

For me however, I think these are a great addition to our arsenal of ranking tools that we have at our disposal.  The key to their success is to NOT use them in any spammy manner.  Well I guess that goes without saying for any SEO endeavor.

Below are a few examples of how to use and how not to use them.

Incorrect:
<img src=”/images/nose.jpg” title=”New York based Rhinoplasty surgeon Dr. John Doe performed this Rhinoplasty procedure on this male patient.  The Rhinoplasty before and after shows the rhinoplasty was a huge success.”>

Correct:
<img src=”/images/nose.jpg” title=”Before and after rhinoplasty photo” alt=”nose job photos”>

For images you should use these as a very short description.  Notice the ALT tag was added as well.  Make sure that the title and alt tag are not duplicates of each other.


Incorrect:
<p class=”somestyle” title=”This article discusses New York based Rhinoplasty surgeon Dr. John Doe and his approach to how he performs Rhinoplasty procedures in his New York City based plastic surgery center.”>Content goes here </p>

Correct:
<h1>Rhinoplasty Information</h1>
<p class=”somestyle” title=”Details about rhinoplasty procedures”>Content goes here </p>

For paragraphs and certainly not for every <p> you have, you should again use a short description which describes what the paragraph of text is talking about.  It’s main idea if you will.  Notice I added a <H> tag to the mix.  I like to use the title attribute in the first paragraph of text following the heading tag and use it as reinforcement to the main idea of the content.


Incorrect:
<a href=”/rhinoplasty.html” title=” Rhinoplasty procedures are explained by New York based facial plastic surgeon Dr. John Doe. Follow this link to read more detailed information about his approach to nose job surgeries.”>Rhinoplasty</a>

Correct:
<a href=”/rhinoplasty.html” title=” Rhinoplasty info”>Rhinoplasty</a>

Again, we use a simple description approach to use within a link tag.  For this I look at the page it is linking to and try to use the main <h1> or <title> tag of that page to reinforce that main idea.

So hopefully this gives you a better insight to how to use the tittle attribute for better overall optimization and ranking.

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